>> it has got to get cleaned up. it blows me away. >> reporter: in detroit, cnn money.com. we are pushing forward now. >> thanks. years of torment, layers of delusion. we are pushing forward on the story that gets more twisted with each revolution. two suspects in jail and a missing girl from 1991 is a mom. every lawmaker has constituents, ted kennedy had friends and they are coming out to say thanks, fair well and god speed. don't tell the pentagon there is no such thing as bad publicity. what reporters write can be used against them. i am live at cnn headquarters in atlanta.

some stars we hardly know where to begin. let's push forward. a california woman who was kidnapped in front of her own house in 1991 is free and finally getting reacquainted with her family. the secret world she inhabited for 18 years, a backyard where she bore and raised her children. the world is repulsed at what happened to her. the suspect three hours from now will go before a judge to face charges relating to kidnapping and sexual abuse. he met wednesday with his patrol officer. hard to imagine what jaycee's parents are going through. her stepfather witnessed the kidnapping and for years was a

suspect. jaycee's reunion with the mother was a shocker. >> jaycee told her she had babies and my wife asked her how many babies. it was a real shock. i didn't know babies. i was expecting -- nobody told me they were 15 and 11 so it was a shocker. >> we have news producers working every area of this case. >> phillip and nancy garrido expected to be arraigned at 1:00 p.m. local time. behind me is the home they lived in in antioch california. the big focus is on the backyard. that is where the victim, jaycee dugard, spent years living with her suspect. >> the search of residence

showed sheds, tents, and outbuildings, where jaycee the and the girls spent most of their lives. there was a vehicle in the backyard originally described at the time of the abduction. >> jaycee dugard and her two children ages 15 and 11 are in a local motel. there are questions whether or not neighbors were suspicious. we talked to one neighbor who told us he actually called the local sheriff's department because he thought there were children living in the backyard. authorities came out and had a brief conversation with the garridos but nothing happened. cnn, antioch, california. >> what kind of person could do the things that garrido is accused of. he ran a corporation called god's desire. he claimed to control sound with his mind. yesterday he spoke from jail with our affiliate. he talked about a document he

says he gave the fbi and you won't believe what comes next. >> wait until you read that document. wait until you hear the story of what took place at this house. >> next hour the kcr reporter will join me in the newsroom. as for nancy garrido, authorities say she was part of the plot from day one. >> there is always that little sick spouse to go along with

these situations. remember the us a treeian guy who kept one downstairs, his wife cooperated. she claims she didn't know anything but she had to. you find that these people do have somebody to help them. one of the reasons women do these things is they are pretty sick themselves. but they get tired of the demands of that husband and they are told if you help me out then you don't have to suffer and struggle so much. help me get a sex slave then you don't have to do so much. >> phillip garrido is a registered sex offender and on patrol for rape and kidnapping in the 1970s. his neighbors may or may not have known. do you know who lives in your neighborhood? we will show you how you can find out.

a live look now at the john f. kenty presidential library. thousands of people from all walks of life are flocking to pay their final respects. they are passing by his flag draped casket. and officials called the turnout extraordinary. the time is running out. the museum extended last night's public viewing due to the sheer number of people that were waiting. they can't say the same this afternoon keeping with the tightly scripted schedule. j.f.k. library officials say that 12,000 visitors paid their respects within the first hour of the viewing yesterday? what are you seeing now? >> it is pretty incredible. the line stretches more than a quarter mile and the buss are continuing to come. as you mention, time is running out because they will close this place at 3:00. what i want you to see behind

me, this is at the end of the parking lot, people signing these con doll lens books. many of them writing half pages full of thoughts and memories and things they want to be able to share with the families. you can see the lines here. multiple books. folks taking a couple of moments to write out the things they felt or experienced when they saw the casket. one who was able to do that was this woman here. you are a doctor and there is a lot of connection with the senator. >> i believe senator kennedy was the greatest force behind health care reform. i believe we owe it to him to get health care reformed in this country. we see so many pashs who are uninsured, who come in when the disease had progressed too far. we know they could come in earlier. we had to get it passed and have to get it passed now. >> your family came here many years ago and they felt a

connection? >> my mom and her whole family followed the senator's family very closely. they were devastated when they heard jfk had been assassinated. we watched them and observed and admired them. they were able to come partly because of the immigration act that the senator pushed forward and she benefitted from the american disabled act. their family will always be remembered in this country. >> we will let you get back to work. >> that's one thing that really we are learning today. you look at these people and so many of them have personal stories about ways in which the senator has helped. and samuel from liberia and more. >> the senator has been an advocate for our cause and has done a lot for liberia as a

whole. when liberia went through a several war, the senator was there and patrick kennedy was there and working in our community and is one of our brothers. >> so so much. this tha is what really is so incredible. so many lives touched by this one individual who had a huge impact. deb, thanks so much. we hope you join us tonight for special coverage as we remember senator ted kennedy. his memorial begins this evening. plus our spishl live coverage of the funeral service begins tomorrow including president obama's eulogy. that is set for 5:00 eastern tomorrow evening. hundreds of people in southern california are on the run from wile fires. some buildings have already

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this fire is on the pacific coast and damaged homes. we still don't know how many. a blaze in the san gabriel mountains has sparked smoke. reynolds, you are busy. >> you can't have more of a difference between the southwest and west of course they are dealing with fires.

we are not -- we have got danny. here is the latest from that storm this thing is an absolute mess. you look at the structure of the storm. deep convection. a little to the west, you have absolutely nothing. the storm is still about 356 miles from the cape. i want to show you something else. take a look at the jagged trail. this thing has been wobbling like a ship without an our. and the forecast brings it right along the outer banks still as a very weak tropical storm. and then as we get into saturday and sunday, possibly making landfall. we will watch it for you very carefully. we do have tropical storm watch in effect. expecting heavy surf action. you have a lot of people heading

to the coast. this is one of the last big weekends of summer. meanwhile off to the west, we have been talking about the fires. if you look at this from monterrey into place s s this certainly isn't going help matters. let's send it back to you. >> thanks. >> find out weathering the recession. we will check in with richard quest wrapping up a trip to america's biggest city. >> you are not like everybody else. that's why they endorse products from top companies... so people 50 plus can choose health coverage options...

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an emotional family reunion. a woman kidnapped as a young girl 18 years ago has met with her birth mother and sister and word is the reunion went well. jaycee dugard's kidnapper is a registered sex offender. a grim record reached in afghanistan again. this is the deadliest month for u.s. forces since the war started eight years ago. police outside are investigating a deadly shooting rampage. a suspect is in custody after four people were shot to death in a home. a 4-year-old child was wounded. the suspect was apparently the

boyfriend of one of the people who lived in that home. asked the cops what they were doing there. on the economic front, as the week draws to a close, wrapping up his trip. he is there to search for signs that the recession has bottomed out. what do you think as you ramp up your trip? >> it is quite clear having been in hong kong, that i am going to from hong kong to new york to london. hong kong there was unbridaled optimism. if you look at the economic numbers, everybody is pretty much aware something is happening. it is as if the ocean liner is turning. it's very slow. but those people who are still in work, still have jobs, still earning money, are still starting to spend. i know this sounds almost perverse when you have people out of work with problems, but there is an optimism brewing. now that's the keyword that i am

using. brewing. it is not fully fermented. it is not unbridaled optimism but somewhere under beneath all of this, optimism is starting to be created. >> can you say you have been here in the u.s. are you thinking -- they have been more optimistic overseas than we have. is this all coming together? one happy world? >> no. absolutely not. no, no, no. >> then why are we talking? i need positive news. >> i was asked -- how would you square this circle. the place was teaming at the doors and there was no embarrassment at the prices. chefs say it is more difficult to get tables in their

restaurants. ark teches are starting to see orders. the question is what is holding it all up? i am pretty certain when i get to lon on the it will be a far more depressing environment. >> we will have to try to rework that tfgs. >> this is my fourth tie this is the tie roll lyn martin took one look at me and insisted that i had to have one of his pocket squares. how is this? i put it in, right? the pocket square and then he

said don't forkbet to leave it before you go. >> he is a little cheap. you got look at it. >> be ware of an considers giving free pocket squares. >> we look forward to talking to you next week. hopefully it won't be as dismal as you say. >> she says she can sell anything. she loves to work and is willing to relocate. you would think the job offers would be piling up. she has been unemployed for the better part of a year. she joins us via skype. sue, i have been looking at your resume and experience. what happened? >> hi. how are you? well, last october, they went through the customer centric

initiative. a corporate downsizing. a fancy way to say we need to get rid of people. i was doing well, loving my job and it was like a kick in the gut. it was tough. but i looked at it as an opportunity to change my life and move on to a different direction. however, nine months later, i am still unemployed. >> has it impacted your family? reading through your kids and how everybody has been trying to pitch in and you -- this has been a rough haul for you. >> it was a rough year. my mother passed away and a few months later i found myself unemploye unemployed. i am very lucky. i did have a severance from

novartis. but i am not one of the people to sit back and do nothing. i want to work. i need to work. and i enjoy working. >> i have a question for you. i don't know if it is on your end or our end. there is something up on the screen. is stha you? something on the middle of the screen? i believe sit on our end. >> that's okay. we will try to get it fixed. i don't want it to be distracting to the viewers. are you ready to dwif you 30 second pitch? we will start the clock. take it away. >> hi. i am a persistent seasoned sales

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>> pleased to meet you. >> we will get all her info and her pitch. if you would like to be considered for a 30 second pitch, leave a comment. our regular pitch day is every thursday. and the story that we can't stop talking about, the kidnapped girl from 1991 is now a free woman in 2009. one of the few people who can empa thaz has advice. remember elizabeth smart. into revolutionary performance. one word makes the difference between defining the mission and accomplishing the mission. one word makes the difference in defending our nation and the cause of freedom. how... is the word that makes all the difference.

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and his wife nancy. how do you carry on after something like that? elizabeth smart and her family know more than most. she was taken from her bedroom in utah and held captive for nine months before being reunited with her family. smart and her family told us how they dealt with life after the ordeal. elizabeth had a message for jaycee. >> i would tell her to just relax and enjoy her family and spend some time reconnecting. and i don't know. 11 years is such a long period of time, but maybe if its possible to think back and think of things that she used to enjoy being with her family and maybe going out and doing them again and finding new things. continuing on with your life.

not letting this horrible event take over and consume the rest of your life because we only have one life. and it's a beautiful world out there. and there are so many things to learn and to see and to grow in. and i just would encourage her to find different passions in life and to continuely push forward and learn more and reach more for them and not to look behind because there is a lot out there. >> we did not have her out at all. we did not have her in the public sight for a period of time. there was one way from the politician station but we tried to let her, you know, come to terms with what she wanted to do and how we could reconnect with her before she stepped out into the public.

>> smart was held captive for nine months. jaycee for 18 years. the family has a lot of issues to sort through -- that is a gross understatement. one thing we may now know that we didn't have in 1991 when jaycee dugard was kidnapped, realtime information at her fingertips telling us if there is a sex offender living next to us. how to look for the red flags, too. another live look at the jfk presidential library. the publy viewing wraps up in about 90 minutes. thousands of people are paying their last respects to the man known to many as teddy. and join us tonight and tomorrow for cnn's special coverage of

senator ted kennedy. a memorial service begins later this evening followed by special editions of larry king live plus live coverage of the funeral services beginning at 10:00 tomorrow morning including president obama's eulogy. all eastern standard time. what an incredible show of support in and solidarity right now in buffalo, new york. some 10,000 firefighters is where funeral masses are being held for two buffalo firefighters killed on monday when a floor of a burning corner store collapsed under them. services were this morning and right now they are under way for the second. the governor is also there at that service.

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because we are grass roots and because this was organic, everybody went off in 14 different dreks and it looked like it was in danger of fizzling. that is what we are doing is trying to herd all the cats together into a single message. as you are seeing here in different areas of the country, different priorities will be at the top of the list. too much government. irresponsible spending. government not listening to us. working at odds with the working americans. so what they are trying to do here is get everybody around and almost a rock band tour kind of atmosphere. two big tour buss here. and there are a couple of rvs with them as well. what they want to do is try to on each stop get more people. they will pick up buss along the way until they get to the final

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member by a roadside bomb is the 46th american fatality this month making august the deadliest month. new proof that pirates off the coast of somalia are still in risky business like firing upon a u.s. military chopper. this is video from the navy. the navy says that's an armed pirate. this pirate isn't the best shot. and his alleged victim. garrido and his wife are being held on child sex and kidnapping charges. a lot of parents are so

overprotective. laura deckers are so not. they were fine with her setting out on a around the world sailing trip solo. she is just 13. bill black has the rest of the story. >> laura's dreams are so extraordinary, the dutch government chose to fight them. i haven't even sailed a single meert. the 13-year-old's goal to con kwur the world's oceans alone has inspired strong opinions in the netherlands and yand. at age 17 this is the youngest person to sail solo around the world. a voyage that took nine months. he doesn't believe that age should be the determining

factor. >> age is only a number. if she has the mental strength and technical ability? can she build a boat? is she an electrician and more? you cannot just be a sailor for a trip like this. >> it was 1969 when this trip first took place. he was 0 years old. he would prefer laura to wait a little later. strength of character is more important than age. >> is that young person mature enough to be able to look after themselveses and deal with everything that will come at you when you get out alone at sea. >> this dutch woman is qualified to comment as a sailor and a mother. judith sailed around the world with her two children five years ago. she says there is no way she would let her daughter do it

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think i.d. theft can't happen to you? not even the chairman is immune. ben bernanke has been targeted. we will talk more about this. jerry, how did it all go down? >> this is a crazy story. ben bernanke's wife is at starbucks and has her handbag stolen. here is what was taken. her checkbook, drivers license,

four credit cards and a small amount of cash. according to "newsweek," the criminals went to the bank only days later and tried to cash checks part of an organized crime ring that was selling i.d.s through the middle atlantic states. this helped the cops bring these people to justice. it's friday. >> that's a kpliment. >> heres my question. nobody is immune. what we learn from this is we don't leave purses hanging on the chair. >> you have talked to many times about preventive measures that we can do or at least a way to

be proactive. >> there are things you can do but there is no one solution to identity theft. things you will do are preventative measures. you will take all the letters you get from the bank, fine institutions and you will put them through a shredder. this is mail from banks and lernds. look at the statements online instead of in the real world this is all about protecting your social security number. that is the big thing bhen it comes to your identity. that one little number opens the door to everything. >> thank you. >> my pleasure. >> all right. and next friday? >> i will get it right. >> i will buy u.s. both the purses you put in the front ch. >> maybe a fanny pack.

>> there we go. let's bring the fanny pack back. two stories we are pushing forward. barbara star heads to alrlington and senator kennedy's final resting place. and the mats are coming out. and hopefully your boss is making plans to deal with swine flu. what employers should do right now. microsoft does photo shop? badly. the company is coming under heat for a picture it posted on its weapon site. visitors saw a picture of a racially diverse board room but if you clicked from poland, the african-american guy is magically replaced by a white guy. and it's a pretty sloppy editing

job to boot. interesting enough, microsoft has pulled the image, apologized and said it didn't mean to be racist. under chinese kids kids poisoned by toxic air bringing you their stories, landed our reporter in the grips of a government crackdown. we. back story.

well, each friday, we call on our colleagues at cnn international -- actually, we call in michael, a daily show hosted by michael holms joining me now. what do you have for us today? >> i don't think we can top the cow birthing of last week. our motto is you will see what

you see on backstory where you don't see anywhere else. we try to give people the sense of how things work. the process of getting the story can be as interesting as getting the story itself. >> you are the first to do this. >> it has taken off as an idea. today, what we have a bay jang correspondent, emily chang, out doing a serious story, hundreds of children in china being poisoned by the air they breath, the land they walk on by a lead and zinc smell ter in this part of china. she shot backstory video showing the things crews go through when they are reporting in china. the eye of the government is always on foreign correspondents. in this case, emily telling the story of those poisoned kids led to a pretty hairy road trip. >> reporter: according to government test results, the lead content in the air near the plant is more than six times higher than it is at monitoring

stations in surrounding areas. it doesn't look any different, feel any different or smell any different. that's why this is so dangerous. what is really so surprising is how close these homes are to the plant, itself. all these people were supposedly going to be relocated before the plant opened but the relocation got stalled and all of these people are still living right here. as soon as we got out of the car to shoot the smelting plant, several police drove by as well as a black car. someone got out, took down our license plate. they may have been a government official, a plant official. we don't know. they started following us. now, we're inside the village, trying to get access to the families here who have already agreed to talk to us and do have six children and hopefully, none of these officials will stand in our way. more and more parents keep coming up to us wanting to show

us the test results for their children. this man has two daughters. both of them have tested positive for ab normally high levels of lead in their blood. she is nine years old. her test results show 506 micrograms per litre, which is by far the highest we have seen. she is quite small. her father said she stopped growing last year and he believes it is because of the lead poisoning. we've gone several miles now. they are definitely still following us. they are in a plain car, plainclothes. we don't know who they are. they could be with the plant. they could be with the government. we just don't know. we do have another interview with county officials. we are trying to get to that as

soon as possible. hopefully, we will be with them. definitely, these guys aren't giving up. still don't know who they are, just driving in a plain black car and wearing black clothes. just hanging around. we don't know how long they are going to be following us, we don't know what they want. they are not going away. we worked it out with government officials. now, they are cooperating with us, that involves following us around and watching everything that we do, listening to what we say and critiquing us. the government car is right up there behind our van. luckily, we have shot our last shot. we are heading out and going to go to the airport and get out of here. >> you know what's amazing is that still she could tell us the

story. >> kept rolling. >> you kind of wonder what would happen. i guess there is only a certain point they can go to, right? >> yes, exactly. we did an interesting thing once on backstory, we had a piece about china and the authorities and how they keep an eye on them and we actually put up the chinese cnn on one of the monitors behind me and we said to viewers on backstory, we are going to start talking about china. bang, it went black. >> we have to remember, this is a country, we have a tremendous relationship with. >> absolutely. you can't just wonder around with a camera. >> interesting. backstory. cnn.com/backstory for viewers in the u.s. >> otherwise, they just tune in every friday and they see you here and you give them the scoop. >> yes. we are pushing forward in search of justice for jaycee

dugard and the children she bore with the man who held her captive for 18 years. we are two hours away from a court hearing for philip garrido and his wife,nancy. they are accused of snatching jaycee. >> 911. my daughter was just kidnapped. top of the hill, a gray ford, man and woman in the car. >> that was jaycee's father then. from that day until wednesday, her home was a makeshift compound of tepts and a shed in a secluded backyard some 200 miles away in the bay area of the suburb of antioch. if the garrido residence wasn't what it appeared, neither was philip garrido. he ran a printing press but last

year formed a corporation called god's desire and may have planned to start his own church. he set up a website where he claimed to control outside forces with his mind. yesterday, he spoke from jail with reporter, walt gray, of our sacramento affiliate, kcra. i have to tell you, walt, we could not get enough of that interview. >> reporter: kara, going about my business getting ready for the 5:00 newscast here in sacramento and was told philip garrido was on the telephone and wanted to talk to me. recorded the conversation. it was wide-ranging at best. at times, he said, look, i can't answer those questions. i haven't got a lawyer yet. he kept referring to documents. he was talking about documents he had dropped off with the fbi that would explain everything. i'm going to play some of the conversations that i had with him for you now. this one where he says that soon, we will know the whole story. >> wait until you read that.

my life has been straightened out. wait until you hear the story of what took place at this house. you are going to be absolutely impressed. it's a disgusting thing that took place with me in the beginning but i turned my life completely around. to be able to understand it, you have to- >> reporter: he has 29 criminal carts. he has an arraignment. some of those counts include multiple rapes, molestation and other allegations that should make it a life sentence if convicted. part of our conversation i asked him about specifically what happened. here is somewhat of admission talking about a disgusting thing he is admitting to. >> it's a disgusting thing that took place with me in the beginning but i turned my life completely around. to be able to understand it, you have to start here. i'm so sorry. i want to help you further but i

also need to protect the sheriff's office here, and i need to protect the federal government and i need to protect the rights of jaycee lee dugard. >> reporter: he mentioned he had two children with jaycee lee dugard. she was 14 years old when she wore the first of his two children. he was in his 50s at the time. obviously, she was kidnapped in 1991 as you heard the plea from her father, the 911 call when she was abducted from a bus stop, something all of us as parents have as our greatest fear. kyra? >> do you have any idea when we may hear from jaycee and her mom? so many people want to see her and hear her story and the reaction from her mother. >> reporter: we had a phone conversation with the stepfather. he let us know that jaycee is doing well physically. don't know about mentally. you can only imagine if you are

11 years old and living in the backyard of a house until you are 29, giving birth to two children in that backyard, never having had medical care. so, you know, physically, i think she is okay. mentally, i mean, anyone's guess. >> wait and see. you bring up a good point. a lot of people were wondering, when she did give birth to those two children, did she ever go to a hospital. are you saying that since we know her children have never seen a doctor that all of this happened in the backyard? >> reporter: that's the story, which is kind of the extra bonus here. the children and jaycee were living in the backyard in a shed covered by a tarp. they never left that backyard. she gave birth to the children in the backyard or the house proper. i asked the suspect, philip garrido, did you ever get them medical attention? where were they born? he said they couldn't afford it. somebody like him on the run, the last thing he would want to

do is bring jaycee lee and children to a hospital. people in the hospital are trained to look out for these kind of things. they would have been pretty suspicious. >> one more question. this story is so intriguing to so many of us. this document that he talks about, that garrido talks about in jail, do we have any idea what that is and what he is talking about? >> reporter: he kept referring that this document would be of interest to hundreds of thousands of people and would be a heart-warming story once it came out. our nbc san francisco affiliate said that the documents dropped off with the fbi were regarding his sexual prowes, his ability to control people with his mind and other such sexual things on there. so perhaps it is just visions of a crazed man. >> bottom line, he is a nut case. greg, great work. appreciate it. jaycee dugard is said to be staying with a motel with her

children while she and they try to adjust to the outside world. they all met yesterday with her mother and stepfather and said td reunion went pretty well. i think they are pretty happy. most of us can't imagine how they are feeling. f forensic psychiatrist, ellen morrison shared om insight. >> this is going to take some time. she was 11 when she left. she is 29. in her parents' mind, she is still the 11-year-old girl. to have those two children brought in, one the same age she was when she was kidnapped, it is going to take a very long time, first, for trust, second for being able to be introduced to a world that's so foreign to her and to also, in a way, a lot of people are not going to understand this, to miss the people with whom she has lived for the past 18 years.

>> this story got a lot of us talking about various websites that are out there. how do we know if sex offenders live in our neighborhood. we know there are a number of data bases out there where they have to register and parole officers have to visit them. we want to know if people in our neighborhood are living close to us with convictions regarding sexual assault involving children? so there is one website that we wanted to show you. it's family safety report.com. this is what it looks like. you can register for only $1. there is a section you can go to have ayou register, a neighborhood sex offender part of this site. you put in your address and see all these dots that popped up? we wanted to see how many registered sex offenders were living around here by the cnn center. if you push these red dots, the picture comes up, the crime they

committed an where they lived. if you scroll farther down, we can show you all the registered sex offenders in the whole entire atlanta area. if you register, put in your address, you will also get updates on a regular basis when, indeed, another sex owe fepdffe moves into your website. here it is, family safety report.com. you can put in up to three addresses and get regular alerts when registered sex offenders come into your neighborhood. let's look at the john f. kennedy presidential library and museum in boston where time runs short for anyone wishing to give their final respects to senator ted kennedy. his public viewing concludes at the top of the hour.

our deb freyrick is there. >> reporter: the room you have been seeing on television, very quiet. as a matter of fact, the stillness inside that room is really profound as people walk by that flag-draped coffin. once people are done with that one, they are coming to another line right here at the end of the parking lot. this is a library. this is a line where people are signing condolence books, thoughts, what he meant to them. some people are writing a paragraph, pages, i should say. one of those people, what did kennedy mean to you? >> the kennedys mean so much to me, from his brother, john, who was the president. i'm originally from costa rica. i have been here for 40 years and senator ted kennedy has been

a great movement, you know, for the underprivileged and middle class. there is no words we can say thank you. i came here to say thank you to him and his family. it was a privilege that his family had us to come out. we thank them instead of they thanking us. >> reporter: what's so interesting is just a little while ago. thank you so much. one of the kennedy sons, matt, bobby's son, was out here greeting people on the line, expressing his thanks for them being out here and they, in turn, expressing their own condolences. one of these people, you said hello to matt. how important was that to you? >> this whole day is really something incredible. i have met ten more of the kennedys that i ever had seen before. they are all so incredibly

gracious. i had a little girl next to me. she is just still here. we just met today but she has learned so much by being here. i wanted her to realize that i shook his hand when i was 17 years old. all of these things are so meaningful through life when it is someone who has done so much for all of us. humanity is better today. >> reporter: thank you so much. >> the kennedys have just been awesome. >> reporter: many people who are here today really feel were it not for them, the country would be far different today than it is. you talk about what was important to people here. some will tell you, reproductive rights, civil rights, gay rights, immigration issues, all of these things that senator ted kennedy took upon himself. people from uganda, liberia,

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well, when we talk economy, we have got to talk jobs. the labor department says that first-time jobless claims dropped last week by 10,000 applicants with a total of 570 unemployed people filing for benefits. the number of people continuing to receive jobless benefits also fell to 6.1 million. still high but it's the lowest level since april. now, my next guest is looking for work. she and thousands of others won't be counted in any official tally of the jobless. the reason? she is self-employed and not eligible for unemployment benefits. jolene pearson perry made a great living marketing and selling the good life in what was then atlanta's booming kondo business. you are looking at samples of her work. when the bottom fell out of the housing market last fall, her work dried up. she and her architect husband

have downsized, sold their home and got rid of their office. their savings is drying up as well and jolene says, it's pretty much a nightmare. that's why she is here for today's 30-second pitch. >> we had copies of pictures of your ad and hopefully, we will be able to get those together. >> you were doing well an living the high life? >> oh, yeah, for the last ten years, some of the most prominent kondo developers have been passing me around like an hors d'oeuvre tray. really wonderful. very difficult to spread out and do something other than real estate. it was really gravy train time. when the music stopped, it stopped and jolene had to find a new chair. >> you have been looking for that new chair. you have gotten extremely creative. tell us about the three kasketeers and how that came about? >> when my mother was looking for her final repose, casket, all i could think of was, i

wouldn't be caught dead in that. on the plane right home, i thought, okay, my husband is an architect and also a fabulous furniture designer. so we decided to come up with a number of sleek, very gorgeous caskets and i named it the three kasketeers, because it is myself, my husband and my cat, who does quality control. >> so, obviously, you have all this experience. you are very creative. you have done very well. you are trying to come up with these other business ideas. it's still tough. why do you think it has been so tough? >> honestly, i think people are perilized. they are afraid to make a move i think that marketing andtizi advertising are some of the first things to go. they need to reinsert them because a lot of people are thinking you don't exist anymore

because you haven't been advertising. it is starting to soften up. i think that message is starting to come through to clients. we just need to get it pushed so it goes through a little faster. >> this is your moment to push. i will have you look into camera 3. we will put your e-mail up there, jolene3at mack.com. you have 30 seconds. sell yourself, baby. >> oh, honey. it is not just me. myself and my time, we are communicators. we communicate whatever product or service that you have to offer to your target market that doesn't know yet how much they need you. we need to communicate the fact that up until this point, they have been living shallow lives without your product and they really, really need it. we do that through creativity. we bring them to bring your product to them in a way that makes them stop and makes them look, makes them want to buy. we do that through creativity, through any kind of branding,

marketing, whatever it is that we do. it's always through the creativity. so that's what we do. for a limited time, we are up for grabs. >> this is now the 45 second pitch. i think we have added 15 seconds. it is jolene3@mack.com. he with are going to have her e-mail posted on our blog at cnn.com/kyra. if you want to be part of the pitch, get in touch with us there or kyra at cnn. keep us posted, jolene. >> i will. the danger grows by the hour. hundreds of people in southern california are on the run from several big wildfires. we are going to get the latest. reynol reynolds wochl is here.

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southeastern u.s. we are seeing scattered showers. when you compare danny with bill from last week, there is no really comparison in terms of just form of the storm. bill was such a well-formed storm. this one, the center of circulation right here. all the congestion off due to the east. we are seeing a little bit trying to form into the southeast quadrant of the storm. a very weak storm. it has been meandering all over the place. we have the national hurricane sen t center. it shows where it has been in the past. then, the forecast brings it right ang lo the outer bank as a very weak tropical storm. saturday evening by 8:00 p.m. sunday, 8:00 a.m. with winds at 45 miles an hour. at the time, we have a tropical storm watch in effect for duck, north carolina as far south as cape lookout. you can expect hand surf there, waves anywhere from three to four feet higher than usual.

that is a look at our forecast. we have a lot more to share with you throughout the rest of the day into the evening also. thank you. college student jordan thomas, a devastating boating accident took part of his legs four years ago. he has triumphed over that loss and is helping other young amputees do just same. >> they say i'm a bilateral trance tibial am poo too, in layman's terms, i lost both my legs from the mid calf down i was a normal kid turned into an abnormal situation. a freak accident. i was 16 years old. my parents and i were going to go skoo ba diving. there were tons of waves. i jumped into the water. i got pushed behind the boat and i looked down and i saw blood. i had such great support. that's what helped me just kind of get through it. that's when i saw all the other kids that were in the hospital that didn't have great support. rick niz that something has to

be done. my name is jordan thomas. i started my foundation there in the hospital. i provide kids with limbs that they deserve. a lot of insurance companies will put a cap on prosthetics or they will provide them with one pair of legs for their lifetime. you never would know that you need new legs every year and a half. it's like shoes. you just outgrow them. noah is six. his first leg, it didn't bend. they asked for a new knee but he was denied. so we provided him with a bendable knee. now, he is so proud to show off how his knee bends. it's great. we have committed to these kids until they are 18. so we have a lot of work ahead of us, a lot. we are excited about it. we need to, would on this. we provide them a prosthetic. that creates a gamet of opportunity for them to achieve whatever they want. i think they deserve that. you can find out more about jordan or any heroes at

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right to the lungs and can make otherwise healthy people extremely sick. world health authorities putting out an update. they say pandemic h1n1 is the predominant circulating strain of flu influenza in both northern and southern hems fierce. this week, we have seen how colleges and universities are trying to get ahead of swine flu encouraging students to get shots and spreading awareness across campus. apart from prevention, we are all being urged to take precaution. you know the big one. stay home from work or school if you are sick. schools can shut down. what about offices, factories, stores, tv networks? joining me to talk about the business end, andrew kataldo, a lawyer and adviser to big employers. your interest isn't just personal. your daughter you think has h1n1. my daughter called me to say she had a 103 degree fever an a professional had diagnosed her with basically h1n1. it is not confirmed.

she has been holed up with antivirals and unable to go to class so is it hit home. >> who i ironic. here you are advising companies. seriously, this has been something. the number one concern, even among all of us, because a few of us have been under the weather lately. we can't call in. this is the type of job where we could get fired or someone would be upset if we do it. that's a big fear among folks, if i'm sick, i can't stay home, because my employer will judge me. >> that's playing out in studies that have been conducted. johns hopkins university just released findings. it was 12% of health care workers said in the event of a pandemic, i will not go to work. harvard school of public health released their third study results in july in which over half of the respondents said, if there is a pandemic that breaks

out in my school stystem, i wil have to stay home to take care of my children. over 40% of the reresponsible tents said, if there is a pandemic and i have to stay home, within a short period of time, a couple weeks, i will suffer financial hardship. these are real concerns that people have. employers need to get ahead of that by anticipating those natural responses. >> i know your phones have been ringing off the hook. you have advised power companies, financial institutions. let's say i own a company, let's say, for example, a bank, i'm your new client. what are you going to tell me? what do i need to do right now to prepare for this as an owner of a bank? >> you need to do two things, recognize this is probably the worst time for us to be talking about this. i understand that. you understand that. however, you need to develop a plan to address this. that plan needs to have two components, a people aspect and a profit revenue business aspect to it. on the people side, you need to do two things. you've got to try to protect your employees and your

customers when they come into your branch. >> how do you do that? >> you do it through educating them, distancing, social distancing, talking to them about cost, etiquette, providing antivirals. some companies have gone so far as to buy anti-virvirals for no only their employees but their family. >> what if people start calling in sick by droves, how do you get folks to run your business? >> you have to anticipate that. you have to try to create contingent work arrangements. that may be allowing people to work from home, facilitating that, by giving them laptops and virtual networks and the like. you need to be thinking about contingent workforces. can i call back employees, retirees? you need to be thinking about, if i'm going to experience a 20% to 40% absenteeism, and that absenteeism changes, because people who are sick today are back tomorrow and people that are here today are gone tomorrow, you need to identify

what are the critical processes to run my business, what are the critical skills and how am i going to backstop those skills? how am i going to find them when i have this moving dynamic of absenteeism? >> i would get a great janitorial company and have them come in every day and wipe down the whole building. i'll tell you what, keep us updated. as the numbers increase, i want to hear how many more companies are reaching out to you and if it is, indeed, going to save money for the business? >> yes. the key is, in a situation like this, without a solid plan or without practicing a plan, you are in a business scenario. it is such a different type of business interruption. >> andrew, appreciate your time. >> andrew kataldo, an attorney right here in atlanta at mcguire, woods. the feds say that workers also need to stay home to care for sick children or even healthy children if schools shut

down. employers are urged to stay in close touch with state and local health departments, a great place to get the most immediate information, wash those hands and keep the area clean. four years ago this weekend, hurricane katrina plowed into the gulf coast killing more than 1,800 people and causing billions of dollars in damage. new orleans bore the brunt of that. early problems to build up were not seen. many people blame the mayor. sean takes a look. >> reporter: mayor ray nagin has been a lightning rod for post-criticism. as the recovery moves forward, his popularity moves in the opposite direction. after ground break forg a new public housing project, nagen told me he isn't surprised. >> i don't think any leader after a disaster survives.

if you look at other major disasters, most leaders are kind of kicked out. i was fortunate or unfortunate to be standing here as we continue the progress. what i find is that people want immediate fixes when there was no immediate fix. i took the brunt for it. >> i am so humbled today. >> reporter: in may, 2006, nine months after he katrina hit, he was reelected. critics say he is rarely seen in public at a time when new orleans needed a strong, physical mayor. >> some people come to me and said, why did your mayor run for re-election? have you heard that question and what's your answer? >> i just didn't want to leave the city in a total state of disrepair. i wanted to put some things in motion. i felt i was best qualified to do that. we'll see if it all works out. >> reporter: while many areas are flourishing, entire

committees in new orleans east, lake view, remain devastated. many blame nagin for the slow pace in recovery. he says he was ready to lead but was the city ready to follow. >> there have been days when i've questioned whether the city was really ready to move forward and ready to deal with the issues that i was bringing forward. you know, i'm a little too old to change now. i came to office as a newby. i've never been in politics. sometimes that works out. sometimes it doesn't. >> reporter: among his most controversial comments? >> this city will be chocolate at the end of the day. >> reporter: the only thing i regret about chocolate city is that people misunderstood the quote and the comment. at that time, there wa this notion, some of our business people were saying, they didn't think certain people will come back i wanted to send a strong signal that everyone was

welcome. it was misinterpreted. >> reporter: nagin will be out of office in nine months. he says, in all probability, he is done with politics and will begin to look at private sector jobs in a matter of months. sean callebs, cnn, knobs. now, kidd rock is trying to be a one-man economic engine for his hurting home town. (mom) i'm not going to be able to see her every day. or sit on her bed and talk about her day. but she's ready. thanks to walmart's unbeatable prices, i was able to get her everything she needed. as well as what she wanted. letting go?himom! (mom) that's the hard part. set them up for success, for less. save money. live better. walmart.

are being held on k450i8d sex and kidnapping charges. we are awaiting word any minute now on the official coroner's report regarding the death of michael jackson. it has been withheld for weeks at the request of the l.a. police department. it is expected to reaffirm that the 50-year-old singer died from a lethal drug cocktail including poe poe follow. could the fourth time be the charm? nasa hopes so. they will try again tonight to launch the space shuttle

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got the lucky interview. >> reporter: this is no ordinary concert. kidd rock performing at his biggest headline show ever bringing 80,000 people to his home town of detroit. talk about a city that needs an economic stimulus like that. ♪ ♪ it is bitter twoosweet and br us to our needs in time like these." >> reporter: the people of the city have a bad boy from detroit becoming the voice of a city in peril. how long have you had this? >> oh, geez, probably ten years. >> reporter: you won't leave, will you? >> no, i'll never leave. the downfall of the auto industry hits home for kidd rock whose father made a living

selling american cars. it is blind-blowing to everybody in this town. >> reporter: in this perilous time, this self-programmed son of detroit is working on more than just his music. >> as i've gotten older, i have become more in tune with that and realized how much the stuff that i'm doing can help people. >> reporter: you look at the impact he is having here in detroit in terms of a foundation at wayne state university, trying to fund music scholarships for kids there, he has had a major, positive impact on detroit, something this economy needs right now. >> reporter: kidd rock's music scholarship is funded by t-shirt from the apparel company he bought out of bankruptcy. his recently launched american badass fear, that can be banked for creating jobs in the state, more than 400. >> there is no way to get love back or get it if you don't do it first. i have tried to give back. >> reporter: battling rampant unemployment, detroit has problems much bigger than this

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august of 2009, the deadliest month in afghanistan. more than half of americans think the war isn't worth it. in the meantime, the president is increasing troop presence there. consider this context as we dig into the story. the fact that the military uses a pr firm to help analyze the media, the accusation that journalists who want to be embedded with the truth and cover the war in afghanistan

might be graded based on how much good news they report. this is a story that the military's own paper has been covering. kevin barren of stars and stripes joins me now live. bottom line, kevin, because we are getting a lot of back and forth, back and forth. i have a number of statements that i'm going to read that have been coming in to me at the last minute. are we being judged, you, me, other people that have been overseas, afghanistan, iraq. is the army actually saying, you cannot embed, you cannot come here and interview my commander, because your coverage is deemed negative? >> apparently, the pentagon says, no, they are not doing that anymore. they are still using these reports from this pr firm that will rate your work as positive, negative, or neutral. they say this is the way they background on reporters and prepare to get them where they need to be and do their work.

we forming out with a follow up this afternoon that is as late as 2008, just last year that the public affairs officers down there were doing this last year, using these reports to stare and determine where your reporters should be to end up giving better coverage to the military. >> kevin, hold that thought. real quickly, we will come right back to you. breaking news in l.a. where the coroners have formally released michael jackson's cause of death. kara finnstrom, what do you have? >> reporter: the press release just handed to us. the headline here is that they have determined that michael jackson's death back on june 25th, was a homicide. also interesting here, kyra. they established the cause of death as both acute propofol intoxication, propofol is the powerful sedative we have been talking about that michael jackson was using to try and battle his insomnia and other conditions contributing to death

benzo diaz peen effect. this is another drug he had in his system. the press released goes on to say that the drugs propofol and lorazepam were found to be the primary drugs responsible for his death with a number of other drugs found in his system. some court documents that were released did kind of lay out what police detectives had found out about the hours leading up to his death, that he had taken a total of five other types of drugs before getting the propofol. so it is interesting in this press release that it does paint the picture that, you know, while the trim mary drug of concern is propofol, that it does point to a number of other drugs that may have also played a role in his death. >> bottom line, is conrad murray going to be charged with homicide? >> reporter: that's the big question now. this is from the coroner. this is his finding. he could determine whether this is a homicide, whether this was a natural death, whether it was a suicide, whether it was accidental causes.

what he has found is that this was not accidental, that this was a homicide. so now it's in the hands of the police department. also, in his press release, it does tell us that the complete toxicology report, which would lay out everything that was in his system as well as the final coroner's report are not being released. they are giving us these few details but as a request, the police department, they are holding on to that further information. we will keep tracking it. sanjay gupta, i understand you are with us now. you are hearing this news that they are talking about acute propofol intoxication and then other conditions contributing to the death and it's -- how do i say benzodiazepine? >> yes. >> easier for you to say. can you put that into perspectives, how lethal an you bring those tog. >> we got details about the various medications that michael jackson was given and the times.

it was over a period of a few hours that he was given medications like valium, a medication a lot of people have heard of, versed, and ativan. those are the medications you were just mentioning. they are sedatives. he was given those doses periodically over just a few hours. that was something that was in an affidavit that came out last week. what was concerning, even back then, it raised a lot of eyebrows, was propofol being given on the morning of june 25th, about 25 milligrams, is what we heard was given to him at that point. this is a medication that can very quickly cause someone to go into respiratory depression, meaning they can't breath on their own. the medication often used for general anesthesia. i had never heard of it used outside a hospital setting. that medication alone outside a hospital setting could cause death. what's interesting now, as kara finnstrom just reported, is they

are saying a homicide, intentional, i guess, from a legal standpoint. it will be interesting to see how they piece that all together. >> that's what we are waiting to here if, indeed, conrad murray, michael jackson's doctor, will be charged with homicide now that the coroner has released this report. sanjay gupta, thanks. we are going to take a quick break. welcome to the now network. population: 49 million. right now 1.2 million people are on sprint mobile broadband. 31 are streaming a sales conference from the road. eight are wearing bathrobes. two... less. - 154 people are tracking shipments on a train. - ( train whistles ) 33 are im'ing on a ferry. and 1300 are secretly checking email... - on a vacation. - hmm? ( groans ) that's happening now. america's most dependable 3g network. bringing you the first and only wireless 4g network. sprint. the now network. deaf, hard of hearing and people with speech disabilities access www.sprintrelay.com.

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breaking news in los angeles where they have released michael jackson's cause of death. >> reporter: the coroner's office came out and handed to us that they have ruled michael jackson's death on june 25th was a homicide. it is up to the coroner's office to determine whether this was accidental, natural causes or a homicide. other pieces of interesting information. we have heard all the thoughts that this was possibly linked to a powerful sedative that michael jackson was taking for his severe insomnia. a sedative called diprivan. they have established the cause

of death as due to acute propofol intoxication. they also said other conditions contributing to his death. benzodyazepine effect. another drug they found in his system. about five weeks ago, the preliminary results that were brought together by the coroner were released. they said that, you know, they felt that this was due to the effects of the propofol. now, we know that since that time, the coroner has concluded that it's not just propofol that was in his system but possibly some other drugs that were administered to him that also contributed to his death. from those court documents, we learned that there were some five dirn administrations of drugs before the propofol was administered to him on that morning. >> all right. kara finnstrom, following the news for us there out of los angeles. if you are just tuning in, the coroner, department of coroners there in the county of los angeles,